We learnt this recipe from a kind Sindhi lady and so we also call it Sindhi Achaar
— Syd’s mother
Ingredients
The ingredients for large sized jarful of pickle
1 kg raw mangoes
50 gm garlic
50 gm green chilly
400 gm sugar
50 gm ready mix achaar masala.
2 tablespoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
50 gm mustard oil.
One teaspoon salt.
Method: Peel the raw mangoes and cut it into small slivers. Mix turmeric and salt and leave it in the open for three hours in a large tray. Cut the garlic into small dot like pieces. Cut the green chilly into 1 cm pieces. Remove the mango from the tray, dry it and let it in the open once again under a fan to dry for an hour. Mix the garlic, green chilly, sugar, ready mix masala and mustard oil with it.
Cover the entire mixture with muslin and let it dry in the sunshine for three days. Stir the mixture occasionally during this period.
Mix the vinegar and store in a glass jar.
